Zakarea Alshara obtained a Ph.D. in Software Engineering in 2016 at the University of Montpellier. He is assistant professor at Jordan University of Scienceand Technology, where he is a fuculty member in the Software Engineering department. His current research interests include software architecture, software maintenance and evolution, empirical software engineering, open source software ecosystems, and software security. He published many scientific articles in peer-reviewed international software engineering conferences and journals. He is project leader of the CERN/CMS induction project between JUST and CMS.